"Within the first 15 minutes of meeting my mother-in-law for the first time, she casually whipped out her boob and started to show me a strange mole she was concerned about. Then, she went into great detail about the vaginal mesh she had put in.
Thankfully she didn't try to whip that out to show me." -Reddit user jessicar4e354f20c
"My husband happens to be a first-generation Korean American, and because I’m not Korean, my mother-in-law does not like me, not one bit. When he told his parents, he was going to propose to me, she threatened to hurt herself, until her husband, a psychiatrist, threatened to have her institutionalized.
She adjusted her attitude very quickly."
-Reddit user (deleted)
"The very first time I met my mother-in-law, we were driving to a casino and she tells me that I should move to the Philippines where I should take some classes to become a nurse. There was no hi, hello, how are you, nice to meet you.
Just move away and start a new life. She never even bothered to learn my name."
-Reddit user (deleted)
"On the way out the door to go to the rehearsal dinner for my wedding, my MIL patted my stomach and asked if there was “something I wanted to let everyone know" about why we were getting married, implying I looked pregnant." -Reddit user lilys10
"I was hosting Thanksgiving dinner and spent about seven to eight hours cooking. My MIL showed up with duplicate dishes of just about everything I made (we told her to only bring two dishes, tops).
When I commented that we had a lot more food than I was expecting, she said "Well, we don't really need to put yours out, do we? Just put yours in the freezer." -Reddit user (deleted)
"When asked how my husband was, where he works, etc., I overheard my MIL say, “Yes, Matthew met his wife and gave up all his dreams.” I wish I could make this stuff up." -Reddit user amandacs3
"After four intense days of labor, I gave birth to a beautiful baby. I was annoyed that my mother-in-law wanted to be in the room, but it wasn’t until a week after that I would get really mad.
I learned that she had been recording every time she visited and was showing it to anyone she knew. My husband and I had to take her to court to get all the footage, then we completely cut her off." -Reddit user (deleted)
"My ex-MIL dyed her hair to match mine and was obsessed with my chest size, to the point where she asked what size cup I was because she wanted an augmentation."
-Reddit user katlady122193
"My husband and I had to go on an emergency trip, so we left our children with their grandmother, my mother-in-law. Almost as soon as we left, she told the kids that we weren’t coming back because we both died.
I gave my husband an ultimatum, a divorce or we cut her off… we cut her off." -Reddit user (deleted)
"After I married her son, my MIL posted a bunch of my wedding pictures with nasty comments. Things like, “the cake, which no one ate,” “the whole family, plus the bride,” “this is the only picture of the original six" (her and her kids).
She posted all of it publicly on Facebook." -Reddit user courtneyb4318aee52
"My parents died a few years back, so my mother-in-law offered to pay for the entire wedding. To be fair, she wanted it to be a big spectacle. She planned the entire thing and invited whoever she wanted.
A few days before the wedding, she gives us a contract saying that I am only allowed to have one child with my husband and that I am required to go on contraception after their birth. We refused." -Reddit user (deleted)
"I was a bridesmaid in a wedding and my MIL said, “The bride did such a nice job choosing dresses because even YOU look good in this!” Hundreds of “compliments” like this followed through the years." -Reddit user annieb45945f625
"It’s not that my mother-in-law was evil, she just didn’t have any sense of boundaries. She gave me and my husband a very old copy of Kama Sutra as a wedding present.
As if that wasn’t weird enough, she then said that the pages which are slightly bent are the ones that she and her husband really enjoyed. Never mind picturing them in those positions, the book probably needs to be sanitized."
-Reddit user (deleted)
"It was my first child and even before then I knew that I would have to create boundaries with my baby to help her immune system. My mother-in-law didn’t think that she needed boundaries, even though she’s had a bad cough, and decided to kiss my daughter anyway.
When I got angry, she called to tell me what a stuck-up witch I was and that she disowned her grandchild. I’m happy." -Reddit user (deleted)
"My MIL ruined my hand-made wedding invitations by cutting them to pieces and gluing them to little girl birthday invitations. I told her that, although I appreciated her effort, it did not match my theme and she needed to use the actual invitations. That caused WWIII.
She told her whole family we cancelled our wedding and threw a family reunion the same day. Seven years later, still no apology." -Reddit user apettersen